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WhoIsNumberNone

(7,875 posts)
Tue Dec 15, 2015, 02:34 AM Dec 2015

Inside the landmark climate change deal reached in Paris



Negotiators from nearly every country in the world unanimously agreed to a landmark agreement Saturday to combat climate change, pledging to reduce their emissions from burning fossil fuels. It's the first-ever climate pact to commit all countries to take action. To discuss the details of the deal, Wall Street Journal reporter Matt Dalton joins Hari Sreenivasan from Paris.
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Inside the landmark climate change deal reached in Paris (Original Post) WhoIsNumberNone Dec 2015 OP
Total spin swilton Dec 2015 #1
 

swilton

(5,069 posts)
1. Total spin
Tue Dec 15, 2015, 10:45 AM
Dec 2015

that this agreement was anything but a piece of rubbish!

Watering Down Payment Schemes
Lack of specific dates for decarbonizing - even as far out as the second half of this century (assuming populations and governments are still around)
Voluntary emissions reductions

Saudi Arabia and the US got everything they wanted.

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